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Archive for September, 2003
Party schedulingWe’ve all grown up. We are trying to schedule a Halloween party and we are unable to come up with date. We are unable to come up with a date that works for everyone, we all have appointments and other engagements, we are checking our schedules on the computer trying to come up with a good date. Is this what being a grown up is like?
Real sleepAs I mentioned a couple weeks ago, I was having a hard time going to sleep, for about two weeks straight. Finally I gave up and went to the doctor and asked for help. I was given some sleeping pills to help me get my clock/schedule back in normal working order. I used them for about a week and then started going back to sleep without any help from pills. Something that I have noticed is that while the pills made it easier to go to sleep, the sleep that I get naturally is deeper and much more relaxing than the sleep I got with the medication. I don’t know, I found it interesting.
Home improvement reality showsI was watching the Discovery Channel earlier today and I saw an ad for yet another home improvement reality show. It all began with Trading Spaces on TLC. Then that type of show started being copied like the latest N’Sync CD at a fifth-grader’s sleep-over. We have “Surprise by Design”, “While You Were Out”, “Monster House”, “Trading Spaces Family”, “Trading Spaces Kids” and probably a few others. Lately I’ve seen commercials for other similar shows: OK, so one of those shows is fake, but I demand payment if anyone chooses to use the idea. And sooner or later someone will.
PringlesI think that they are made out of crack.
Happiest dayI was not planning on posting anything today but now I must just to mark this day as probably one of the happiest days of my life. Early this morning I opened my email only to find an email from my brother. In it he mentioned that he visited my site, so that extra logo at the top of the page and immediately recognized it. He is very cool with it and doesn’t really make a difference to him. I feel very lucky to have a brother like him. I hope he can comprehend how happy he made me. One down. Two to go.
Can You Raed Tihs?You may have already seen this on a website or two, but it tunrs out taht, aoccdrnig to a uvtiersiny sdtuy, it does not mttaer the psotoiin of the lrtetes in a word, as lnog as the fisrt and lsat letrets are in the rihgt pclae. Our eeys do not raed evrey lteter, itnsead we look at the wrod as a wohle.
SleepyToday I fell sleep after work for a couple of hours. I ended up waking up at 7:30 pm. But when I woke up I thought that I had slept all night long with my clothes on and the TV on. I thought it was 7:30 am and that I had to be at work in 30 minutes. I jumped out of bed, I ran to the bathroom, took my clothes off, I was getting ready to shave before jumping in the shower while thinking “what can I wear to work today?” and then it hit me “why is Bill O’Reilly” on TV instead of “Fox and Friends”? So I come to my computer, look at the clock and I see it said “7:30 pm” instead of “7:30 am”
Joe, the SchmoI have made two entries about the great Joe Schmo show (a fake reality show, with one contestant and 9 actors.) Well, someone posted a reply to one of my entries asking how the show can play with the feelings of an innocent person and use it for entertainment, and asked me to “get a grip.” It’s simple. This is how I see it. Matt Gould (aka Joe Schmo) is an adult. He chose to go on a reality show for mostly two reasons, to get on TV (and hopefully get his 15 minutes of fame), and, with luck, win easy price money. You know, go to a fancy house, play some games, be on TV and walk out with money. Well, you know, earn that money. Sure, the contestant is a genuine good guy. He is very well liked by everyone who watches the show. You know that the producers are going to give him, at least, the $100,000 that he thinks he is playing for. I don’t know about you, but there are a lot of things that I’m willing to do for that kind of money. And I’m sure that he will get all kind of offers and opportunities, all thanks to this show. And no one said that a reality show had to be fair. Look at “Cupid”, those girls humiliate the guys on national TV. Look at “For Love or Money”, a girl said “screw you, I’m taking the money instead of you, and you leave with nothing.” Look at “Joe Millionare”, the girls thought that they were dating a guy worth a fortune. Joe Schmo, and quite a few other reality shows, are made for entertainment value only. And out of all the shows out there, I think that this one is portraying the main character as an honest person who will at the end come out winning, in more ways than one. White RabbitSleeping for 12 hrs on Saturday was a freak moment because in all honesty, I’ve been running on less than 4 hrs of sleep for the last 3 weeks. Like I mentioned before, it was really getting to me, physically and mentally. I would go to bed and even though I was tired, my brain would not shut off. It was like it was running a marathon. So finally, I bit my pride and I went to the doctor and asked for help. After a bunch of questions (we went from TB to diabetes to other scarier things) she finally said “this is due to stress, most likely from work.” To which I agreed. So she gave me some magic pills. It didn’t make me larger, or smaller, nor did my mother ever give me those pills before. But my mind sure moved slow after I took it. It allowed me to have a full night of restfull sleep. I’m supposed to take them for about 2 or 3 weeks, enough to reset my sleeping habit and schedule. Go ask Alice.
I’m finally restedI’ve been very busy at work for the last 3 weeks. It was taking a toll on me. Naturally I was not physically tired, I was mentally tired, but it was getting to me and my health. I’ve been so tired everyday that I’ve even had to skip the gym because I just couldn’t do it. People at work kept asking me what was wrong. I was just exhausted and feeling like crap, every single day. Last night I got in bed at 9 pm. I actually moaned when I got in and said, out loud, “oooh, this feels so good.” Thankfully no one heard me. I watched TV for about 1 hr and I fell sleep shortly before 10 pm until 10 am this morning. I finally feel rested. No more grumpy David.
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